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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

My review of this book will be up tomorrow. It is not easy to read-one that ALMOST feels like a science fiction horror book-except this is all truth with verifiable references on each and every page. The following is a guest post from the author of the Vampire of Macondo. I will be putting up the book trailer with my review.

“Surely if all that was happening to people along the Gulf coast over two years in the United States, then CNN, ABC and other major news stations would report it,” the agent told me about my Vampire of Macondo book summary.

I’d contacted her about what she described as a Hollywood-style video book trailer.

“Well, mainstream news has reported a bit of it,” I replied. “Merle Savage, one of the sole surviving workers at the Exxon Valdez disaster, was on CNN talking about it. Ms. Savage, very ill, hung on, advocating for Gulf survivors. She died last year.”
My heart raced. I wanted to show to Ms. Hollywood Trailer the interview of children like Jessica Hagan, 13, explaining that even children in her community were bleeding and women were having serious reproductive health problems. I wanted her to hear Jessica say that the elderly were “dropping like flies.”

I wanted to show to her Panama City oil clean up worker Jennifer Rexford saying on camera through tears that she was afraid to hold her babies anymore, fearing they’d catch the antibiotic-resistant disease she contracted soon after participating in a beach cleanup, as thousands of other workers had become deathly ill.

I wanted her to hear and see Ms. Rexford assert, “This is genocide. This is chemical genocide.”

I wanted her to hear south Louisiana’s Kindra Arnesen tell my son, director of The Big Fix, “I honestly think we’ve all been poisoned,” after showing her antibiotic resistant, giant, deep oozing boil, a condition all too familiar to Gulf coast residents since the BP “spill” in the Gulf.

“This is the United States,” I heard the agent on the other end of phone exclaim. “I could understand that happening in another country, but not here. You’re talking about something from the 1970s or 80s. This is 2012, Ms. Dupré.

She then said, “My company would have to see evidence of what you’re saying.”

“Oh,” I replied, “Well of course. I have over a thousand references documenting all this in the book. I can send all of those to you.”

After the agent’s next comment of disbelief, followed by another question, I politely thanked her, figuring it best to take my business elsewhere.

“Whoa! What a book!” publicist Dorothy Thompson promptly replied after reading my application for her company to represent me. “I knew there was more to that Gulf disaster than we’ve been told!”

Thompson, director of Pump Up Your Book, showed the innovative and compassionate response I needed to coordinate my virtual book tour.

Soon after sending to Thompson one of my interviews and a video demonstrating censored voices from the shattered Gulf, she exclaimed, “Those poor people.”

I knew I’d found the agent with the interest in human rights needed to publicize my book and coordinate my virtual tour.

About the Author:

New Orleans native Deborah Dupré reports censored human rights news stories. With Science and Ed. Specialist Grad Degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, Dupré’s been a human and Earth rights advocate over 30 years in those countries and Vanuatu. Her unique humanitarian-based research and development work, including in some of the world’s least developed and most remote areas, led her to write articles appearing in dozens of popular print and Internet media internationally.
Her latest book is the nonfiction, Vampire of Macondo.
Visit her column at Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/user-gdeborahdupre

About the Book:

The untold story of psychopathic genocide of Americans by the petrochemical military industrial complex, of how BP’s Deepwater Horizon catastrophe has sickened and killed thousands of people on the Gulf of Mexico Coast and government covered it up. Hear heart-rending cries of the victims. Read thoroughly documented evidence of crimes by Big Oil, the military, the seafood and tourism industries, health care providers, and corrupt government leaders.
See the facts backed by over 1000 references. Meet the Vampire of Macondo.

I was highly upset. I felt as though the clean up could have been handled differently and the government should have stepped up. The poor wildlife, well that one gets me to thinking again which ticks me off all over once again. An last but not lest the oil company should have received more that just a tap on the hand. End of rant.ptfrugal

I was ver upset about the spill, not only did it affect the ocean, people's lives the animals in the ocean but I am so tired of these big companies everywhere getting away with murder and our money and we just keep letting them do it

We knew in the 1970's about other powers sources but did not push for change. I know of young people who are using other sources of power , they are not waiting for the big companys to change. We all can help by using less and save the planet. Wind, sun, corn oil or water as a fuel and the list goes on. Electric trains,ect...

It was a reprehensible accident that shouldn't have happened. Especially after the Exxon-Valdez happened in the '80s. BP should have had better security measures put into place. I'm disappointed and saddened by the fact that millions of fauna and wildlife are now tragically without their natural habitat because the oil will mess with the entire system and it won't be easily fixed.

I think it was a tragic event that the world will not soon forget. I think that there is no way of knowing all of the possible devastating consequences to the local environment that this spill may have both now and in the future. I would certainly be interested in hearing more from someone with more knowledge than me on the subject.

I am amazed that the coverage of the oil spill has slowed to a crawl. I think that routine maintenance and checking for as well as updating our products and infrastructures. I am sad that the families of those affected and those that lost their lives in the initial explosion.

I think it is horrible. It has really made such a negative impact on Gulf tourism, seafood exporting and health and environmental impacts are just becoming known. I don't think we will know the full extent of the damage for a very long time- if ever.

It's ana absolute disgrace and a horrible tragedy -- not just the deaths of the workers, either. I think its effects on the environment, marine life, and the Gulf economy won't be realized for quite some time.

UInfortunately, there is almost always more to the story when big business, a disaster, and/or the government is involved. While I am not surprised to hear that there are ongoing horror stories coming out of the BP oil spill, I am deeply saddened by that. The anguish and suffering of American people should not be occurring, and it should not be swept under the rung. thanks to the author for having the courage of your convictions, and telling their story.